In 2008 Outset UK supported Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno's creation, as part of Psycho Buildings, an exhibition of architectural environments designed by artists, at The Hayward Gallery in London.
As the highlight of The Hayward’s 40th anniversary season, ten artists from around the world have transformed the entire gallery in Psycho Buildings.
The Hayward’s huge spaces were filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which spilled onto the three outdoor sculpture terraces, radically altering the interior and exterior of the gallery. Inside a village made from over 200 dollhouses and a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster were amongst the installations that both enchant and disconcert visitors. Outside on the Gallery’s sculpture terraces, installations including a boating lake, a transparent dome and a working cinema altered the exterior face of The Hayward. Visible from the surrounding area and across the Thames and illuminated by night, they added a significant public dimension to this major exhibition.
Tomás Saraceno creates experimental sculptures that alter our experience of the built environment. Including balloons and inflatable constructions, his sculptures often resemble networks of floating cells or suspended habitats, including airborne gardens, floating bridges and large-scale models for futuristic dwellings. Combining visual elegance with rigorous engineering, Saraceno's ethereal sculptures explore the history of utopian modernism while questioning our relationship to nature and natural phenomena.
In Observatory, Air-Port-City Saraceno imagined and constructed a flying airport. An island amongst the clouds where social forms, the atmosphere co-habit and equalising and adapting to one another. These aerial cities are permanent states of transformation similar to nomadic cities.
ON VIEW: 28th May – 25th August 2008
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